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I’m not quite dead yet… Looks like my keys still work here, great. I know I have been a bit quiet around here for the past year or so but at least the others have kept the lights on in my absence. A large part for my hiatus is because almost a year ago I…

VMConAWS is evolving on a weekly (maybe even daily) basis. So, not unexpectedly, one of the foundational components of VMC, NSX, has also undergone transformational change. The original release of VMConAWS was underpinned by NSX-v, a tried and true SDN solution. However VMware recognized that NSX needed to support more than just vSphere, and that…

VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) is probably one of the coolest VMware products that many people still don’t know about. Even among virtualization experts, very few people really know what it is and what it can do. In a nutshell, VMware HCX is a SaaS offering that combines a set of network features that provide…

If you’re having trouble registering the EMC VSI appliance with your vCenter HA setup, here’s how to workaround it. The SIS provider registration wizard picks up the incorrect IP address for vCenter. It grabs the first IP from vCenter. When trying to register the SIS provider, you’ll notice in the dialog box that it has picked…

As many of you know, yesterday, vSphere 6.7 was released. There are some awesome updates, and while this isn’t an all-encompassing list of features, I wanted to round up the ones I felt were the most important (especially to my customers). First and foremost, it should be noted that you cannot upgrade from vSphere…

You know nothing, Jon Sn… er VMware Engineer One of the great things about automation is the ability to execute a complex or tedious task in a consistent and repeatable way. And it works every time exactly as it should… Or we live in the real world filled with inconsistencies, imperfect humans writing code, and…

Sharing is caring Resource pools are certainly nothing new in the world of virtualization but they can still come up as a topic of debate on how to be properly managed. Whether you use them or not largely depends on your environment. If your environment is fairly lax on resource over provisioning and utilization then…

In this post I will share my journey to achieving the VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCIX 6 – DCV) achievement this year with the methods that I used, in the hopes that others will be able to replicate my results. The VCIX is an achievement earned by passing both advanced…

Hi my name is Greg Madro and I am here because someone thought it would be a good idea that I share my innermost thoughts with the world (cough Jeremiah Megie). Clearly Jeremiah never actually listened to me when we worked together or he thought this would be a fun social experiment. Nonetheless I thank…